ION HX vs GeForce G105M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla 2.0 (2007−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameGT218ION
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date16 July 2009 (15 years ago)3 June 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores816
Core clock speed500 MHz450 MHz
Number of transistors260 million282 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)14 Watt20 Watt
Texture fill rate4.0003.600
Floating-point processing power0.03424 TFLOPS0.0352 TFLOPS
Gigaflops38no data
ROPs44
TMUs88

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Bus supportPCI-E 2.0no data
InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCI
Widthno dataIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amountUp to 512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width64 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed500 (DDR2)/700 (GDDR3) MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth8 (DDR2)/11 (GDDR3)no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsVGADual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortHDMINo outputs
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management8.0no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 July 2009 3 June 2008
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 14 Watt 20 Watt

GeForce G105M has an age advantage of 1 year, a 62.5% more advanced lithography process, and 42.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce G105M and ION HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce G105M is a notebook card while ION HX is a desktop one.


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